Brian W. spent a week in Israel visiting Ilan Koren at the Weizmann institute in Rehovot from January28th to February 3rd. Here he presented a seminar on the impact of rain on upper ocean turbulence and salinity. He also visited the IUI institute in Eilat, and presented another seminar. We identified an opportunity to collaborate with scientists in Eilat to study the breakdown in the mixed layer in Spring.